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African-American corporal (United States Colored Troops) outside 8 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, a slave auction house; Fall 1864. USCT soldiers suffered extra violence at the hands of Confederate soldiers, who singled them out for mistreatment.
The 3rd United States Colored Cavalry was a regiment in the United States Army organized as one of the units of the United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War. The regiment was originally formed in October 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi as the 1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment (African Descent). The unit soon began taking part in ...
The 19th United States Colored Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was composed of African American enlisted men, mostly from southern Maryland and that state's Eastern Shore . [ 1 ]
The 102nd United States Colored Infantry was an African American infantry regiment of United ... was 1,446. 6 people were killed in action, 5 people died of wounds ...
The regiment lost a total of 56 men during service; one officer killed or mortally wounded, 55 officers and enlisted men died of disease. [5] Captain John W. Falconer of Company A was the only field casualty from the USCT during the final battle of Battle of Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
The 28th sustained heavy casualties in the Battle of the Crater at the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia, on July 30, 1864, when nearly half of its soldiers were killed or wounded. William Fox (see references) put the 28th's losses at 11 killed, 64 wounded and 13 missing, a total of 88. Following the Battle of the Crater, the depleted ranks of the ...
The 22nd United States Colored Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was composed of African American enlisted men commanded by white officers and was authorized by the Bureau of Colored Troops , which was created by the United States War Department on May 22, 1863.
A number of the black men killed in the Memphis riots of 1866 were soldiers of the 3rd Regiment. [4] Founded in 1783, the third regiment, often called the “Old Guard” is the oldest active-duty regiment currently serving to this day. Prior to the conditions of the Civil War, Blacks were barred from service by the Federal Militia Acts of 1792 ...